Master's Degree in Health Research and Innovation

Academic year 2024-25

You can also consult this information for the academic year 2023-24.
  • In order to be awarded the degree, students must pass 60 credits as follows:
  • 21 ECTS credits from mandatory subjects
  • 27 ECTS credits from elective subjects

Where students wish to take a specialisation:

  • A minimum of 21 specific ECTS credits in the chosen specialisation (Global Public Health or Transfer and Improvement at Health Organisations)
  • A maximum of six credits from common electives.

Where students do not wish to take a specialisation, they may take 27 elective ECTS credits selected from the elective subjects on each specialisation or from the common electives.

  • 12 ECTS credits from the master’s thesis.
First year
Name Type Credits Period
11861 - Master's Thesis Master's Thesis 12,0 2nd semester
11832 - Qualitative Research in Health Mandatory 6,0 1st semester
11833 - Secondary Research in Health: Critical Review, Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
11834 - Methodology for Quantitative Research in Health Mandatory 6,0 1st semester
11835 - Scientific Writing and Dissemination of Knowledge Mandatory 3,0 2nd semester
11836 - Research Seminars Mandatory 3,0 2nd semester
11855 - Critical Research in Health Elective 3,0 1st semester
11856 - The Gender Perspective in Healthcare and Health Research Elective 3,0 1st semester
11858 - Quantitative Data Handling and Analysis Elective 3,0 2nd semester
11859 - Nutritional Epidemiology Elective 3,0 2nd semester
11860 - Qualitative Data Procedures and Analysis Elective 3,0 2nd semester
11854 - Medical Anthropology Elective 3,0
11857 - Ethics and Social Justice Elective 3,0

 Global Public Health
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Global Public Health
Name Credits Period
11837 - Designing and Assessing Complex Interventions in the Field of Global Public Health 3,0 1st semester
11838 - Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in a Globalised World 3,0 1st semester
11839 - The Foundations of Global Health and Human Development 3,0 1st semester
11842 - Community Health, Health Promotion and Health Assets 3,0 1st semester
11843 - Physical Activity and Health Promotion 3,0 2nd semester
11844 - Food Sovereignty and Global Health 3,0 2nd semester
11845 - Urban Planning, the Environment and Health 3,0 2nd semester
11840 - Health Governance and Policies in a Globalised World 3,0
11841 - Human Mobility, Migration and Health 3,0

 Transfer and Improvement in Health Organisations
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Transfer and Improvement in Health Organisations
Name Credits Period
11846 - Ethical Conflicts in Organisations 3,0 1st semester
11848 - Clinical and Professional Leadership 3,0 1st semester
11849 - Social Skills and Emotional Intelligence: Intervention Programmes 3,0 1st semester
11850 - ICT and Health 3,0 1st semester
11851 - Interprofessional Collaboration and Change Management 3,0 2nd semester
11852 - Designing Improvement Projects in the Health Sector 3,0 2nd semester
11853 - Variability Reduction and Knowledge Transfer and Implementation Models 3,0 2nd semester
11847 - Residential and Family Settings in Elderly Health 3,0